afraid - Story 335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The text message – "The Corner Bistro is closing!" – made her drop her phone. She crouched down to retrieve it, as if trying to hide from the words. The screen seemed to burn her eyes.

She quickly dialed her best friend, Sarah. Her voice was too loud, too high-pitched as she relayed the news. "I don't... I just don't know what I'm going to do," she stammered, twisting the phone cord.

Sarah tried to reassure her, but the words felt hollow. The Corner Bistro was where they'd shared so many memories. It was their place. The loss felt personal, a tear in the fabric of her life.

Emotion: afraid

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.76 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.70

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion afraid. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 afraid stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the afraid emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the afraid vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.316
`마다`	0.314
`worse`	0.313
`😰`	0.303
`恐惧`	0.290

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.691
`la`	-0.562
`a`	-0.402
`"`	-0.316
`brag`	-0.293